CONGRATS! You’ve finished the second midterm assessment. Way to go, friend. You’ve earned yourself a break – and also a snack like this happy quokka! Link to a National Geographic video about the Australian quokka (1 min. 48 sec.) More fun facts about the quokka can be found here.  

1. Thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as Adam Ferguson and John Millar, believed that private property was a beneficial institution. What was their reasoning?  

41. Bryan has internalized the idea that he should strive to earn lots of money so he can live a good life, and he knows he’s supposed to do honest hard work to achieve this goal. However, he finds this extremely difficult since all the jobs in his rural Idaho town have dried up because overlogging, wildfires, and droughts have decimated the timber and tourist industries. Bryan is experiencing  

47. Race scholars point out that White people can choose to identify or not identify with certain ethnic groups. For example, quite a few celebrities, including Johnny Cash, Miley Cyrus, and Johnny Depp have claimed to have Native American heritage, something which would not be obvious or apparent about them otherwise. This example demonstrates the concept of  

9. Modern-day schools tend to reward which of the following parenting techniques?  

6. A form of tracking in higher education is found more and more often in two-year community colleges, in which students are encouraged to choose a major early on. This strategy is called    

42. Phrenology was an early twentieth-century pseudoscience that read people’s intelligence, capacities, and race from  

34. A somewhat surprising piece of common ground has been found by leftists and the right wing in advocating for the idea of a(n) ___    ___    ____, which is seen as a way to battle inequality and poverty on the left and a means of getting rid of the welfare state on the right.  

4.  As discussed in lecture, the burakumin of Japan are a minority group that’s endured a long history of discrimination due to the attribution of racial stereotypes. What specific term do we use for the process of categorizing, differentiating, and attributing a particular racial characteristic or stereotype to a person or group of people?

41. With industrialization, families were able to rely less and less on extended networks to help take care of children, the elderly, and those who were disabled. Because of this, the government intervened to provide access to care. When governments assume responsibility for the basic needs of citizens, this is called a(n)